West Synonyms

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Synonyms for West

westward
A westward direction, point, or region
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Christian society
European and American Culture
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the wide open spaces
Western United States; especially the cowboy and mining culture
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occident
The West (Western world)
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sunset
The sky as the sun sets:
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benjamin west
English painter (born in America) who became the second president of the Royal Academy (1738-1820)
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mae-west
Nickname for a type of life jacket used by Allied forces in World War II having an inflatable rubber bag on the chest of the wearer.
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Rebecca West
British writer (born in Ireland) (1892-1983)
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Dame Rebecca West
British writer (born in Ireland) (1892-1983)
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Cicily Isabel Fairfield
British writer (born in Ireland) (1892-1983)
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due west
the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees
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w
Any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the (w) of will
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new-world
The Western Hemisphere. The term was first used by the Italian historian Peter Martyr (1457–1526), whose De Rebus Oceanicis et Novo Orbe (1516) chronicled the discovery of America.
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the Americas
Western Hemisphere
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North and South America
Western Hemisphere
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Western civilization
European and American Culture
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the range
Western United States; especially the cowboy and mining culture
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the prairies
Western United States; especially the cowboy and mining culture
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Rocky Mountain country
Western United States; especially the cowboy and mining culture
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far west
A region of the United States originally comprising all territories west of the Mississippi River. It is now generally restricted to the area west of the Great Plains.
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where men are men
Western United States; especially the cowboy and mining culture
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wild-and-woolly country
Western United States; especially the cowboy and mining culture
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cow-country
Western United States; especially the cowboy and mining culture
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westernly
(Obsolete) In or towards the west. [16th-19th c.]
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western United States
the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River
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westwardly
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westabout
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in the west
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facing west
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buffalo range
Western United States; especially the cowboy and mining culture
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westernmost
Farthest west.
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westerly
Situated toward the west.
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Words Related to West

south-east
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east
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north-east
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north-west
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southwest
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northwest
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south-west
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southeast
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nw
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Yorksire
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eastern
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southern
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direction
The path or course of a given movement, or moving body; an indication of the point toward or from which an object is moving.
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america
The United States.
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europe
The portion of Eurasia west of the Urals, traditionally considered a continent in its own right, located north of Africa, west of Asia and east of the Atlantic Ocean.
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western
Of or pertaining to a certain genre of film, television, literature, and so on, dealing with the American Old West.
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south
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north
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  • I understand you have a big ranch west of here.

  • California is a long way from West Virginia, Betsy.

  • Some of them ran towards the east, some towards the west, and some towards the south.

  • It read, 'Croft's Feed, Alder's Bridge, West Virginia!

  • Elise promised to find her by dusk, and together, they'd go west, to the Peace Command Center.

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